pedrop357:This is what happens when you let the Changelings into the Alpha Quadrant.

Weyoun : "Pah-wraiths and Prophets?! All this talk of gods strikes me as nothing more than superstitious nonsense!"Damar : "You believe that the Founders are gods, don't you?"Weyoun: "That's different."Damar : "In what way?"Weyoun: "The Founders are gods."

Amish Tech Support:pedrop357: This is what happens when you let the Changelings into the Alpha Quadrant.

Weyoun : "Pah-wraiths and Prophets?! All this talk of gods strikes me as nothing more than superstitious nonsense!"Damar : "You believe that the Founders are gods, don't you?"Weyoun: "That's different."Damar : "In what way?"Weyoun: "The Founders are gods."

In Weyoun's defense, the Founders were his creators. They were capable of bringing him back from the dead. Unlike most religions, he had concrete facts on which to base his beliefs.

I'd say it's reasonable for any company to include its costs - handled properly or improperly - on its balance sheet. The filth here is that they're writing off 7 years of costs in one year's results to get below the threshold set in 2007.The other nonsense (out of control, nothing will ever be done about it) they spent $91,974 entertaining lawmakers with Redskins tickets, golf tournaments and steak dinnersIn other industries, that right there is worth tens of millions in fines for ethics violations.

I'm confused. If they've spent the money already on research shouldn't it already be part of the equation that gets them to their profit number? So this bill let's them count every research dollar twice for accounting reasons?

squegeebooo:I'm confused. If they've spent the money already on research shouldn't it already be part of the equation that gets them to their profit number? So this bill let's them count every research dollar twice for accounting reasons?

I don't know if it passed the legislature or not, but there was a bill this session in New Mexico that was also "good for the ratepayers" that allowed the utilities to significantly jack up residential power rates so they could marginally cut rates to 'big' employers (>50 employees) because jorbs.

In effect, lowering the bill of the local Wal-Mart and increasing the bills for the people who shop there.

squegeebooo:I'm confused. If they've spent the money already on research shouldn't it already be part of the equation that gets them to their profit number? So this bill let's them count every research dollar twice for accounting reasons?

This is Virginia politics we're talking about. Common sense was removed from the equation years ago.

If the company spent it that should come off the profits as that is a cost of doing business and expenses are part of the gross minus expenses equals net equation. How it was not done in the first place is what I would question and then I would fire my accounting department.

Wait, wait. Did anybody actually read this article? It says they spent a lot of that money on nuclear energy research. I'm no fan of huge evil power corporations and whatever, but if they really did put that much into research, how is this any different than putting a bunch of money into your IRA at the end of the year so you don't owe tax?

Several years ago I worked for a local politician who went down to lobby the Virginia General Assembly on how legislation would impact us, and in specific, a bill pushed through by Dominion. When my boss raised our concerns to a state senator from his own party, the senator dismissed them and said that wouldn't be a problem. My boss explained why our local agencies, after significant review, were certain of the negative effects. To that, the senator said, "well, I'll have to check with Dominion on that."

I'm no cynic when it comes to politics, but that was a hard meeting to walk away from with any kind of optimism.

During the last hurricane I was out of power for 8 days. On day 3 a Dominion guy came by and fixed the main line in front of my house, but my service line was down. basically the connector had snapped off. No rewiring, no new line, just needed to reattach. The guy told me he literaly did not have 10 minutes to attach my house back even though he was right there on my pole (hehe) and left.

I know you gotta get the most customers you can up at once, and it is better to spend an hour getting 100 people online than 1 person, but damn...you are right there. I can hand you the farking service line and all you gotta do it snap that biatch back on.

Oh, and on day 5 I get a text "This is dominion. Your power has been restored, and your ticket closed". I had to argue with the farking lady. "My power hasn't been fixed" 'Well it says here that it has'. "I can promise you that it hasn't." 'Have you tried flipping the light switch to make sure it's just not off?' "I don't need to. I know I have no power" 'Well it hs been reported as fixed.' "Why the fark would I lie about this? I. Have. No. Power." 'Maybe it's your breaker box' "It isn't my breaker" 'How do you know? Are you an electrician?' "I know, because my farking service line has farking snapped is on the farking ground where it has farking been for the past 5 farking days and not farking attached to the farking grid like it farking should be! ...Fark." 'Oh....I'll see about getting someone back out there'

forteblast:Wait, wait. Did anybody actually read this article? It says they spent a lot of that money on nuclear energy research. I'm no fan of huge evil power corporations and whatever, but if they really did put that much into research, how is this any different than putting a bunch of money into your IRA at the end of the year so you don't owe tax?

/yeah, I'm a nuclear engineer//I don't see how that's relevant

Yes, "research". Like researching the relationship of hookers to blow.

No way in hell they are going to build another nuke plant unless the current grid can't hold the load. Even if that comes to pass, they will rather stich up another 100 yr old coal plant if it saves a nickle.

forteblast:Wait, wait. Did anybody actually read this article? It says they spent a lot of that money on nuclear energy research. I'm no fan of huge evil power corporations and whatever, but if they really did put that much into research, how is this any different than putting a bunch of money into your IRA at the end of the year so you don't owe tax?

/yeah, I'm a nuclear engineer//I don't see how that's relevant

Almost no one commenting bothered to read the article. My only problem with what they're doing is that they are allowing 7 years of R&D spending to offset 2 years of profits. If I tried to spread 1 years' capital gains over 4 years of tax returns, the IRS would have a conniption.

CheekyMonkey:forteblast: Wait, wait. Did anybody actually read this article? It says they spent a lot of that money on nuclear energy research. I'm no fan of huge evil power corporations and whatever, but if they really did put that much into research, how is this any different than putting a bunch of money into your IRA at the end of the year so you don't owe tax?

/yeah, I'm a nuclear engineer//I don't see how that's relevant

Almost no one commenting bothered to read the article. My only problem with what they're doing is that they are allowing 7 years of R&D spending to offset 2 years of profits. If I tried to spread 1 years' capital gains over 4 years of tax returns, the IRS would have a conniption.

The seven year time frame is for when they're writing off wind and nuclear power generation costs not the actual research costs.